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‟ Conceptually, I am open to mistakes - errors, actually. I do play lots of wrong notes while I am making some music, and a mistake or a wrong note is like a gift for me: 'Oh, wow, an unknown sound or an unknown harmony. I didn't know about this.'
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‟ For me, Debussy is the door to all 20th-century music.
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‟ The piano is the closest instrument to me in my life, so it's just natural to play my pieces on the piano.
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‟ Just recently, I thought about how maybe I should have kept using the synthesisers more after 'Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence'; then, I would have been a more unique soundtrack composer than I am now. It could have been my signature. But then, probably, Bertolucci would not have offered me to compose for his films.
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‟ Asian music influenced Debussy, who influenced me - it's all a huge circle.
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‟ It's a very intimate, closed universe, doing my own music. It's just me, basically. I have to inspire myself; I have to do everything by myself.
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‟ My main interest in synthesizers when I was an older teenager was to escape from the spell of the 12-tone system or, in a more broad sense, the spell of the European modern-music system. That led me to explore towards electronic music and ethnic music.
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‟ For me, change doesn't happen on a linear basis; it zig-zags back and forth.
- Ryuichi Sakamoto